ἘΛΕΗΣΗΣ, ἐλεησης
ELEĒSĒS, eleēsēs
Sounds Like: eh-leh-EH-sees
Translations: you will have mercy, you will show mercy, you will pity
From the root: ἘΛΕΈΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to have mercy, show compassion, or pity someone. It is used to describe an action of showing kindness or forgiveness, often in response to suffering or a plea for help. In a sentence, it would typically be used to express that someone will extend mercy or compassion to another.
Inflection: Future, Active, Indicative, Second Person, Singular
Strong’s number: G1653 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 3:5
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 8 — 4:115
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Zechariah — 1:12
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΛΕΈΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΛΕΗΘΗΝΑΙ — to be shown mercy, to be pitied, to be mercifully dealt with
- ἘΛΕΗΘΗΣΕΤΑΙ — will be shown mercy, will receive mercy, will be pitied
- ἘΛΕΗΘΗΣΟΜΕΘΑ — we will be shown mercy, we will obtain mercy, we will be pitied
- ἘΛΕΗΘΗΤΕ — have mercy, be shown mercy, be pitied, be merciful
- ἘΛΕΗΣΑΝΤΕΣ — having had mercy, having shown pity, having been merciful
- ἘΛΕΗΣΑΝΤΟΣ — of having had mercy, of showing mercy, of pitying
- ἘΛΕΗΣΕΙ — he will have mercy, he will show mercy, he will pity
- ἘΛΕΗΣΗ — he may have mercy, he will have mercy, he might show pity, he will show pity
- ἘΛΕΗΣΟΝΤΑ — will have mercy, will show pity, will be merciful
- ἘΛΕΟΥΝΤΑΣ — having mercy, showing mercy, pitying, having pity
- ἘΛΕΩΝΤΟΣ — (of) him who shows mercy, (of) the one having mercy, (of) the merciful one
- ἨΛΕΗΜΕΝΟΙ — having received mercy, shown mercy, pitied, merciful ones
- ἨΛΕΗΜΕΝΟΣ — having received mercy, shown mercy, merciful, one who has received mercy
- ἨΛΕΗΣΑ — I had mercy, I showed pity, I had compassion
- ἨΛΕΗΣΑΣ — you had mercy, you showed pity, you had compassion
- ἨΛΕΗΣΕΝ — had mercy, showed mercy, had pity, showed pity
- ἨΛΕΟΥΝ — they had mercy, they pitied, they showed pity
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